Until now, users used to push messages called tweets and to search for any relevant keywords, used to use ~search.twitter.com~. But it is of not much use for first time users as it was kind of hurdle since to search you had to open up a new page and so on and so forth.

“Search integration is a way of introducing relevancy to people. This is not just about ‘What are you doing?’ but about what everyone else is doing. Twitter is about finding out what is going on out there right now in real time. This is a powerful new way of repositioning the product.”

So, within the next 10 days, Twitter will start putting search into the Twitter home pages of about 1 per cent of users, to test the waters and ask for feedback, before rolling it out across the network.